As major companies around the world start incorporating AI into virtually all aspects of their operation, things are bound to get a little wonky from time to time.
That’s reportedly what happened to Amazon this past December, per the Financial Times. The company’s cloud infrastructure, which makes up the backbone of a large part of the internet as we know it, experienced two minor outages that month, including a 13-hour outage in the middle of the month. It was apparently caused by engineers allowing the agentic Kiro AI system to perform some tasks, which led the AI to “delete and recreate the environment.”
Mind you, this event wasn’t anywhere near the same scale as the big Amazon Web Services outage last October. An AWS spokesperson told Reuters that it was a “brief…
https://mashable.com/article/amazon-cloud-outage-december-ai
